Inspiration Quotes

I want to lay under the blanket of sky and laugh while the stars wink and we write our story.

~ A.d. Posey

Your life is a story. Write the one you want to read.

~ A.d. Posey

The best stories are like the best burgers: big, juicy, and messy.

~ A.d. Posey

Good writing is more about graft and craft than inspiration and aspiration.

~ Johnny Rich

Books inspire a man to embrace the world or flee it. They start wars and end them. They make the men and women who write and publish them vast fortunes, and nearly as quickly can drive them into madness and despair. Stay away from what you do not fathom from now on...

~ Matthew Pearl

How....will I ever truly depict you?You’re perfect, my writing isn’t.

~ Sanober Khan

and everyone wants to read the poem we’re afraid to write.

~ Kelli Russell Agodon

my poetry is merely a body.you are the soul in my words.

~ Sanober Khan

How do I get inspired? Life.

~ Alex G. Zarate

We need to stop trying to get attention by seeing who can scream and cry the loudest. Write something worth reading and your voice will be heard.

~ Teresa Mummert

Our business is communication oftentimes through the medium of stories but our capacity has a far greater scope - to entertain certainly, but also to stimulate debate, to mark up changes and differences and that way, to maybe, just now and then, to change the world.

~ Sara Sheridan

I want to assure you with all earnestness, that no writing is a waste of time, – no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work. With every sentence you write, you have learned something. It has done you good. It has stretched your understanding.

~ Brenda Ueland

If insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results - then success is insanity squared!(2012 SCBWI New Member Conference; Richmond, VA)

~ Brian Rock

Three words for a writer: Make me care.

~ Buffy Andrews

The only way to be inclined to write is to write to your inclination.

~ Terry Lander

He had always wanted to write music, and he could give no other identity to the thing he sought. If you want to know what it is, he told himself, listen to the first phrases of Tchaikovsky's First Concerto - or the last movement of Rachmaninoff's Second. Men have not found the words for it nor the deed nor the thought, but they have found the music. Let me see the answer to the promise of that music. Let me see it made real. Let me see the answer to the promise of that music. Not servants nor those served; not altars and immolations; but the final, the fulfilled, innocent of pain. Don't help me or serve me, but let me see it once, because I need it. Don't work for my happiness, my brothers --- show me yours --- show me that it is possible --- show me your achievements --- and the knowledge will give me courage for mine.

~ Ayn Rand

Keep exploring, you will discover new path.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

What is a miracle if not the manifestation of light where darkness is expected?

~ Leigh Ann Henion

The adrenaline and stress of an adventure are better than a thousand peaceful days.

~ Paulo Coelho

Everyone deserves something so much better than what they deserve.

~ Kingsley Opuwari Manuel

We need God-great grace in all spheres of life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

May God’s grace abound to you for every good work.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I live by grace.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The amazing, whole, overwhelming, abundant life is found, oddly, by letting go. By living a dangerous faith--the kind of faith that believes in a God who knows our hearts and loves us enough to take our breath away.

~ Susan May Warren

The righteousness of God in His election means, then, that as a righteous Judge God perceives and estimates as such the lost cause of the creature, and that in spite of its opposition He gives sentence in its favour, fashioning for it His own righteousness.

~ Karl Barth

Judge tenderly, if you must. There is usually a side you have not heard, a story you know nothing about, and a battle waged that you are not having to fight.

~ Traci Lea Larussa

We stitch together quilts of meaning to keep us warm and safe, with whatever patches of beauty and utility we have on hand.

~ Anne Lamott

In her inestimable audacity, Julia was the catalyst in my life for something beautiful. I hadn't anticipated her—hadn't even wanted her, truthfully—but there she was. A little something extra that made all the difference in the world.

~ Cathleen Falsani

Today you will envy the blessings of another, or you will bask in the wonder of the amazing grace you have been given.

~ Paul David Tripp

For most of my life I have thought of grace as a hope of a bright tomorrow in spite of the darkness of today--and this is true. In this way we are all like Pamela, walking a road to grace--hoping for mercy. What we fail to realize is that grace is more than our destination, it is the journey itself, manifested in each breath and with each step we take. Grace surrounds us, whirls about us like the wind, falls on us like rain. Grace sustains us on our journeys, no matter how perilous they may be and, make no mistake, they are all perilous. We need not hope for grace, we merely need to open our eyes to its abundance. Grace is all around us, not just in the hopeful future but in the miracle of now.

~ Richard Paul Evans

While passing through an obscure nook of Notre Dame cathedral, Victor Hugo noticed the Greek work for fate carved in the stone. He imagined a tormented soul driven to engrave this word. From this seed sprang his monumental novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

~ Alexander Steele

Wisdom is bestowed by the Creator.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Life may look to be made up of incredible coincidences. One problem. I don’t believe in coincidences. I believe in twists of fate.

~ Tania Elizabeth

Because I think you're right. You can make a difference. He told me experiences were kind of like fate, and fate usually came in the form of a test. He told me fate liked to be worshiped. It liked to see us fall on out knees before it offered to help us up... ♥

~ Lauren Oliver

Often subtle clues are not obvious enough for the stubborn or stupid. This is when God stops throwing crumbs and starts throwing the whole piece of bread. If you step on moldy bread then you know you have waited too long.

~ Shannon L. Alder

You must be a light unto yourself.

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

The totally alive, totally conscious, and totally aware Universe takes care of itself completely. It is totally self-reliant and totally self- sufficient. it is perfect.

~ Chris Prentiss

Sure all life's highways at some point must end, so I plan to ride it in style and plummet in a swan dive when the pavement runs out...And hopefully leave behind artistically that which may make other roads an even better ride...

~ Tom Althouse

BE the light you already are.

~ Sheri Bessi

The face of everyone in mine,the oneness with every blade of grass,the flight with the flocks in the sky, the dance with the clouds across endless skies.The strength with every tree,rooting deep into mother earth,springing forth into the heavens,extending branches of gratitude and love....Such a privilege, honor and grace,such a gift and joy.

~ Patsie Smith